18 October 2015

Scott Kitterman uploaded python3-defaults/3.4.3-7 which changes py3versions to list versions in a consistent order. Issue reported by Santiago Vila with a tentative patch by Chris Lamb. Sadly, it appears the problem is not entirely solved.

Lunar reported that test strings depend on default character encoding of the build system in ongl.
reproducible.debian.net
The 189 packages composing the Arch Linux core repository are now being tested. No packages are currently reproducible, but most of the time the difference is limited to metadata. This has already gained some interest in the Arch Linux community.
An explicit log message is now visible when a build has been killed due to the 12 hours timeout. (h01ger)
Remote build setup has been made more robust and self maintenance has been further improved. (h01ger)
The minimum age for rescheduling of already tested amd64 packages has been lowered from 14 to 7 days, thanks to the increase of hardware resources sponsored by ProfitBricks last week. (h01ger)
diffoscope development
diffoscope version 37 has been released on October 15th. It adds support for two new file formats (CBFS images and Debian .dsc files). After proposing the required changes to TLSH, fuzzy hashes are now computed incrementally. This will avoid reading entire files in memory which caused problems for large packages.
New tests have been added for the command-line interface. More character encoding issues have been fixed. Malformed md5sums will now be compared as binary files instead of making diffoscope crash amongst several other minor fixes.
Version 38 was released two days later to fix the versioned dependency on python3-tlsh.
strip-nondeterminism development
strip-nondeterminism version 0.013-1 has been uploaded to the archive. It fixes an issue with nonconformant PNG files with trailing garbage reported by Roland Rosenfeld.
disorderfs development
disorderfs version 0.4.1-1 is a stop-gap release that will disable lock propagation, unless --share-locks=yes is specified, as it still is affected by unidentified issues.
Documentation update
Lunar has been busy creating a proper website for reproducible-builds.org that would be a common location for news, documentation, and tools for all free software projects working on reproducible builds. It's not yet ready to be published, but it's surely getting there.
Package reviews
103 reviews have been removed, 394 added and 29 updated this week.
72 FTBFS issues were reported by Chris West and Niko Tyni.
New issues: random_order_in_static_libraries, random_order_in_md5sums.